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COMING IN APRIL: FIGHT CARD MMA!

THE TROUBLE WITH BLONDES!

THE BLONDE BROUGHT BULLETS

THE TROUBLE WITH BLONDES!

THE TROUBLE WITH BLONDES!

WAS THE BLONDE CAPTIVE A VICTIM OF MURDER ALONE?

HARDBOILED CORNER: BEAT TO A PULP~HARDBOILED 2!

HARDBOILED CORNER: BEAT TO A PULP~HARDBOILED 2!

This new collection of hardboiled tales follows the blood-soaked trail left behind by Beat To A Pulp: Hardboiled – the 2011 award-winning collection, edited by David Cranmer and Scott D. Parker.

This current gathering pumps out another thirteen knuckle-breaking, crime tales. With writers from the 1930s and 40s golden era of pulp (Paul S. Powers and Charles Boeckman) and modern hardboiled masters (Robert J. Randisi and Wayne D. Dundee), this wild bunch is set to blaze a rat-a-tat sweep across the pulp fiction landscape. 

Also keeping the body count high are top-shelf stories from Jedidiah Ayres, Eric Beetner, Jen Conley, Matthew C. Funk, Edward A. Grainger, BV Lawson, Tom Roberts, Kieran Shea, and Jay Stringer.

COMING IN APRIL: FIGHT CARD MMA!

COMING IN APRIL: FIGHT CARD MMA!
Fight Card Publications announces the upcoming April debut of its new series Fight Card MMA, the first of several new expansions of the bestselling Fight Cardbrand.  Fight Card MMA will take the Fight Card series from the ring to the cage, while delivering ground-and-pound action equal to the exciting fistic pulp action demanded by fans of the monthly Fight Card novels.

Like the original Fight Card novels, the Fight Card MMA tales will be written by many of the best authors working in New Pulp under the series unifying pseudonym, Jack Tunney.

First up in the cage is author Gerard Brennan. His Fight Card MMA: Welcome To The Octagontakes readers deep into the hardscrabble world of Ireland’s burgeoning MMA scene, from dangerous underground battles to the spotlight of the cage.  Brennan has previously won critical acclaim for his hard-hitting novels The Point, Wee Rockets, and Fireproof.  

Published simultaneously, Fight Card: The Kalamazoo Kid comes from top MMA author Jeremy Brown.  Brown’s previous MMA themed novels, Suckerpunch and Hook And Shoot – featuring rising MMA star Aaron Woodshed Wallace – have become the benchmark by which all other MMA themed novels are judged. Fight Card: The Kalamazoo Kid is a tightly plotted tale of revenge where every move inside and outside of the cage can be deadly.

Fight Card MMA: Welcome To The Octagon and Fight Card MMA: The Kalamazoo Kid will debut digitally and in print during the Pulp Ark convention to be held April 26-28-2013, in Springdale, AR.  

Pulp Ark is one of the nation’s leading popular culture conventions, and will be featuring Fight Cardco-creator Paul Bishop as a Guest of Honor.  Pulp Ark will also see the digital and print debut of Fight Card: Swamp Walloper, written by Bishop as a sequel to his first Fight Card novel, Fight Card: Felony Fists.

For more information on Fight Card and Fight Card MMA CLICK HERE

For more information on Pulp Ark CLICK HERE

MASK OF THE RED PANDA!

MASK OF THE RED PANDA!

For those of us who are dedicated Decoder Ring Theatre listeners are already huge fans of the adventures of The Red Panda created and voiced by Gregg Taylor.  Aside from the many audio Red Panda adventures, Taylor also penned three companion novels, all in the best pulp tradition.

Now comes the digital presentation of all new Red Panda adventures in comic form ... And it looks to be a terrific venture to introduce the Red Panda and his delectable, sharp-witted, companion, the Flying Squirrel.

Mask of the Red Panda #1 will debut from Monkeybrain Comics on February 27th, and it will be available on Comixology for $0.99.

To check out an advance review CLICK HERE

AUTHOR JOHN KENYON JOINS THE FIGHT CARD TEAM!

AUTHOR JOHN KENYON JOINS THE FIGHT CARD TEAM!
Fight Card is excited to announce the addition of John Kenyon to the Fight Card Team of two-fisted, hard-punching, writers. John’s Fight Card novelette, Fight Card: Get Hit, Hit Back, will be released in May 2013.

John is a writer and editor who lives in Iowa City. He has published numerous short stories, with some of his best collected in The First Cut from Snubnose Press. In addition, he is the editor of Grift magazine and the accompanying website (www.griftmag.com), where he publishes short fiction, reviews, interviews and essays. He has also edited the anthology Grimm Tales for Untreed Reads. By day, he is executive director of the nonprofit Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization.

JOHN KENYON ON THE WEB
Twitter: @tirbd/ @GriftMag
Grift Magazine: www.griftmag.com
Blog: Things I’d Rather Be Doing ~ http://www.tirbd.com
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ao5ozzo

THE TROUBLE WITH BLONDES: MEN'S ADVENTURE EDITION!

 SIN BEACH BLONDE   BAMBOO CURTAIN BLONDE   DOUBLE AGENT BLONDE   WATERFRONT BLONDE   BLONDE WITH THE LUCKY LEGS 
I FOUND THE BLOND TRIBE OF THE AMAZON   HOLIDAY PICK-UP BLONDE   PASTOR GAIER AND HIS 21-BLONDE LOVE CULT

FIGHT CARD UPDATE!

FIGHT CARD UPDATE!

Lots of news to cover, so I’m going to get right down to it.  Our January offering Fight Card: Rumble in the Jungle from David Foster got 2013 off to a great start for us.  This is David’s second Fight Card novel (after Fight Card: King Of The Outback) and he really blows the pulp doors off in this tale ... 

Fight Card: Rumble in the Jungle

Hell’s Kitchen, 1953

Brendan O’Toole is on a downward slide. When his wife dies in a freak car accident, he quits his job and hits the bottle hard. Half tanked in the ring, he allows himself to be knocked out, ending his boxing career.

O’Toole, hits rock bottom. After a night of boozing, he is brutally mugged and left for dead. But O’Toole has friends, even if he can’t see it. One of them is Danny Reilly, a barman with a heart of gold. He arranges for O’Toole to join a construction crew set to work on a hotel being built in the Central African jungle nation of Sezanda. It’s O’Toole’s last shot at redemption.

Sezanda, Central Africa, 1954

As things begin to look up for O’Toole, the Sezandan government is overthrown in a military coup. All foreigners are taken prisoner and locked in concentration camps. O’Toole is sent to the worst, HELL CAMP XXI, under the control of a brutal ex-Nazi, Kommandant Krieger. Krieger has a special way of keeping his prisoners under control. In the camp, he has erected a boxing ring. And anyone who steps out of line is forced to face off against his man-mountain, wrecking machine, Crator – a man whose sole purpose is to inflict pain.

Fate has destined Brendan O’Toole to don the gloves one more time, in a fight not just for his life, but his very soul.


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Next up is our February release, Fight Card: Against The Ropes from acclaimed New Pulp author Terrence P. McCauley.  In December, Terrence saw his novel Prohibition – featuring Terry Quinn, ex-boxer turned mob enforcer in 1920’s New York – released from top pulp publisher Airship 27. Prior to the release of Prohibition, Terrence pitched the prequel – telling the tale of Terry Quinn’s boxing years – as a Fight Card novel.  While the 1920’s was new ground for Fight Card, the character and writing was so strong, it was immediately a done deal. Fight Card: Against The Ropes is the result. Fight Card: Against The Ropes New York City - 1925 The boxing ring was the only world Terry Quinn had ever known. He'd entered the hallowed halls of St. Vincent’s Home for Boys in New York City as a fighter and left as a boxer. Years of training and honing his skills finally paid off as he fought his way to the top. Only one more fight stood between Quinn and shot at the heavyweight championship against Jack Dempsey.  It was the glory he'd been waiting for all his life. But things have never gone easy for Terry Quinn. As he starts training for the biggest fight of his career, a crew of Tammany thugs and fix-it men tell him to throw the fight or face dire consequences. Even before he has a chance to consider their offer, those dire consequences come home to roost when one of his long time corner men turns up dead.  The identity of the killer isn't in question. The only question is what is Terry Quinn going to do about it.  Against The Ropes is a tough New York tale played out while the Roaring Twenties roared their loudest. Crooked cops, Tammany hacks, has-beens, and even the great Jack Johnson, all play a role in Quinn’s decision – is his quest for justice worth his future, and possibly ... his life.


 Again any ‘likes’ or reviews on Amazon, or mentions on Facebook, Twitter, or posts via your blogs are always appreciated ...

In other news, our March release will be Fight Card: The Last Round Of Archie Mannisfrom Joseph Grant.  This will be a different style of Fight Card novel, echoing the biographical pieces done by the great Jack Kofed in many of the sports pulps.

April will see a Fight Card triple combination debut at the 2013 Pulp Ark convention where Fight Card co-creator Paul Bishop (yeah, me) will be the guest of honor.  Pulp Ark will herald the unveiling of the first two novels under the Fight Card MMA banner – Fight Card MMA: Welcome To The Octagonfrom Gerard Brennan, and Fight Card MMA: The Kalamazoo Kid from Jeremy Brown.  Both Gerard and Jeremy sport extensive critical acclaim for their prior works and have delivered dynamite stories that leap off the page.

The third punch of the combination will be Fight Card: Swamp Walloper – the sequel to Fight Card: Felony Fists – from yours truly, Paul Bishop.  Fight Card: Swamp Walloper will send LAPD cop Pat Flynn and his partner Cornel Tombstone Jones deep into the Louisiana swamps on a mission of two-fisted vengeance – and it won’t take long before they are in the fight of their lives against a sadistic prison warden and a chain gang of swamp rats.

Beyond April, we will see books from John Kenyon (Fight Card: Get Hit, Hit Back), Derrick Ferguson (Fight Card: Brooklyn Beatdown), Tony Hancock (Fight Card: Fight River), Anthony Venutolo (Fight Card: Union Of Snakes), Rory Costello (Fight Card: Flyweight Fury), Bobby Nash (Fight Card: Barefoot Bones), Nick Ahlhelm (Fight Card: MMA: Rosie The Ripper), and returning Fight Card author Kevin Michaels (Fight Card: Can’t Miss Contender) ... Whew!  There is a lot of hard punching Fight Card action on the horizon ... 

As always, artist Keith Birdsong has been doing yeoman work on the covers for our e-books, and David Foster has been very generous in helping to get out our top-notch paperback covers.  Thanks also to Terrence P. McCauley for taking over the Fight Card Twitter feed @FightCardPulps, to Robert Evans for keeping up the Fight Card Linked-In Group (http://tinyurl.com/a3dwcun), and to Jeremy Brown for helping out with the Fight Card website www.fightcardbooks.com/

With the able assistance of David Foster, a new issue of Fight Fictioneers Magazine will also be making an appearance in April and will be promoting all of the Fight Card novels to be published since our last issue as well as the usual assortment of great fight fiction articles.  We are continuing to work on audio versions of our Fight Card titles and hope to have more solid information soon.

Thanks to everyone on the Fight Card Team for getting out the word.  It really is a privilege to work with so many great writers and see through the publication of such great hard-punching stories.

Keep punching ...